Earl Wilber Sutherland, Jr.

(191574). U.S. pharmacologist and physiologist Earl Sutherland was the recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He devoted his research to the study of hormones, leading to his discovery that they control body functions by regulating the level of a substance called cyclic AMP, which in turn controls the cellular activity of each organ.

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